{if an obviously young person like you can believe there ever was such a time!}

thank you LOL. I must admit to being a few days short of 63 I guess it's all relative. And yes I do remember the 'good old days' when everything was run on a shoestring (nay a frayed shoestring at that), I remember in my early days of running a folk club that I couldn't pay a group on the night and I promised to send the money on - which I did (my honour was involved). I got a reply that suggested that, at the time, this was promised on a lot of occasions, but rarely happened and the group were very pleased and surprised to get the money even if a bit late. Nowadays I don't book people if I haven't the cash to meet the contract.
chris